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choke

  [chohk] verb, choked, chok⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
2. to stop by or as if by strangling or stifling: The sudden wind choked his words.
3. to stop by filling; obstruct; clog: Grease choked the drain.
4. to suppress (a feeling, emotion, etc.) (often fol. by back or down): I managed to choke back my tears.
5. to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture.
6. to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal.
7. to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor.
8. Sports. to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often fol. by up).
–verb (used without object)
9. to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food.
10. to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat.
–noun
11. the act or sound of choking.
12. a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped.
13. Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc.
14. Electricity. choke coil.
15. a narrowed part, as in a chokebore.
16. the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke.
—Verb phrases
17. choke off, to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply.
18. choke up,
a. to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: She choked up over the sadness of the tale.
b. to become too tense or nervous to perform well: Our team began to choke up in the last inning.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME choken, cheken, var. of achoken, acheken, OE ācēocian to suffocate; akin to ON kōk gullet

Related forms:
choke⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
3. block, dam, plug.

choke coil

 
–noun Electricity.
a coil of large inductance that gives relatively large impedance to alternating current.
Also called choke.

Origin:
1905–10
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choke   (chōk)   
v.   choked, chok·ing, chokes

v.   tr.
  1. To interfere with the respiration of by compression or obstruction of the larynx or trachea.
    1. To check or slow down the movement, growth, or action of: a garden that was choked by weeds.
    2. To block up or obstruct by filling or clogging: Mud choked the drainpipe.
    3. To fill up completely; jam: Major commuter arteries were choked with stalled traffic.
  3. To reduce the air intake of (a carburetor), thereby enriching the fuel mixture.
  4. Sports To grip (a bat or racket, for example) at a point nearer the hitting surface.
v.   intr.
  1. To have difficulty in breathing, swallowing, or speaking.
  2. To become blocked up or obstructed.
  3. Sports To shorten one's grip on the handle of a bat or racket. Often used with up.
  4. To fail to perform effectively because of nervous agitation or tension, especially in an athletic contest: choked by missing an easy putt on the final hole.
n.  
  1. The act or sound of choking.
    1. Something that constricts or chokes.
    2. A slight narrowing of the barrel of a shotgun serving to concentrate the shot.
  3. A device used in an internal-combustion engine to enrich the fuel mixture by reducing the flow of air to the carburetor.
  4. The fibrous inedible center of an artichoke head.
Phrasal Verb(s):
choke backTo hold back; suppress: choked back his tears.
choke offTo bring to an end as if by choking: "Treasury borrowing of existing savings would drive up the interest rate and choke off economic activity" (Paul Craig Roberts).
choke upTo be unable to speak because of strong emotion.

[Middle English choken, short for achoken, from Old English āceōcian : ā-, intensive pref. + cēoce, cēace, jaw, cheek.]
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Choke

Choke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choked; p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [=a]ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]

1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak.

2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison.

3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden.

4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." --Swift.

5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

Choke

Choke\, v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

The words choked in his throat. --Sir W. Scott.

Choke

Choke\, n. 1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : choke
Spanish: ahogar, asfixiar,
German: ersticken,
Japanese: 窒息させる
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choke

v.
1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's `lpr(1)' choke." "I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but `cpp(1)' choked on all those `#define's." See barf, gag, vi.
2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
Jargon File 4.2.0
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choke 
c.1200, aphetic of acheken, from O.E. aceocian "to choke" (with intensive a-), probably from base of ceoke "jaw, cheek." Meaning "valve which controls air to a carburetor" first recorded 1926. Choke-cherry (1785) so called for its astringent qualities. Choker "large neckerchief" is from 1848.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: 1choke
Pronunciation: 'chOk
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: choked; chok·ing
transitive senses
: to keep from breathing in a normal way by compressing or obstructing the trachea or by poisoning or adulterating available air choke intransitive senses
: to have the tracheablocked entirely or partly

Main Entry: 2choke
Function: noun
1 : the act of choking
2 chokes pl : decompression sickness when marked bysuffocation —used with the
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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choke (chōk)
v. choked, chok·ing, chokes

  1. To interfere with the respiration of by compression or obstruction of the larynx or trachea.
  2. To have difficulty in breathing, swallowing, or speaking.

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choke jargon
To fail to process input or, more generally, to fail at any endeavor.
E.g. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." See barf, gag.
[The Jargon File]
(2006-09-20)

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